Wayfaring by Margaret Silf A Gospel Journey Into Life

This informal, inspiring book teaches readers how to create a personal spiritual retreat through readings, prayer, and their own imagination.

Trained by the Jesuits to accompany and guide others in prayer, Margaret Silf brings her experiences and insights to a guide that will help all spiritual seekers–whether they are steeped in Christian tradition or have no background in prayer, retreat, and meditation–make their own journeys of prayer.

In Wayfaring, Silf takes readers step-by-step through the Gospels, examining and elucidating the teachings they contain. Like a personal "spiritual trainer," she deftly encourages readers to tap into their own hearts and minds and discover how the life of Jesus can help them shape their own paths through life.

Sil's previous books have garnered critical acclaim and have attracted a wide, enthusiastic audience in the United Kingdom. Wayfaring, the first of her books to be published by a mainstream publisher in America, is a valuable contribution to spiritual literature, sure to be embraced by many on this side of the Atlantic.

Unrated Critic Reviews for Wayfaring

Publishers Weekly

But Silf's challenge to the adventurous seeker is deeper and broader: she argues that to follow Jesus—to be on the "Kingdom journey"—is to take up the task of "co-creating" the new reality of the kingdom of God in a world fraught with illness and injustice.

Spirituality & Practice

For us, this might be a call to go out into the world and simply allow ourselves to become aware of the very many ways in which God is coming to birth in the events and the people of our planet, whether or not we  or they  happen to think they are 'religious'."